27 October 2025
CEO Think Tank | Re-thinking the CEO-Board relationship and alignment
Guest speakers: Bart De Smet, Chairman of the Board, Ageas | Niek Depoorter, CEO, Arvesta | Thierry Janssen, CEO, Symeta; fr. Chairman of the Board, Real Dolmen | Sandra De Kerckhove, CEO, Iris Group
For CEOs and their Executive Committees, keeping and maintaining alignment with the Board is of capital importance. A clear alignment enables to work toward shared goals and objectives while better understanding each one’s vision and expectations. But it’s not always an easy task as the understanding of business drivers, reality of the field and socio-economic factors may be seen and interpreted very differently.
18 November 2025
C-Boardroom dinner |Transforming from crunch to full business reboot - the Lunchgarden case
When Lunch Garden declared bankruptcy in January 2025, efforts to relaunch were immediately underway. The chain had 800+ employees before the bankruptcy. For the new owner CIM Capital, the challenge was clear: quickly reframing both the operating and business model with a more agile structure to ensure a sustainable future and preserve as many jobs as possible. In parallel, a social dialogue was launched to define the new working conditions within the new strategy, business objectives, and flexibility goals.
This private dinner is on personal invitation only
09 December 2025
CEO Think Tank | The new role and perimeters of the transformation office
Guest speakers: Denis Gorteman, CEO, D’Ieteren; Steven Scheers, Chief Transformation Officer, Gaming1; Pierre Masai, President Lean Institute Belgium & fr. Chief Global Strategy Officer, Toyota Systems; Pierre-Henri D’Haene, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Elia
Often undertaken as an ad hoc project, business transformation has evolved as an ongoing strategic evolution to continuously streamline operations, reduce costs, optimize resources, improve operational efficiency, and seize opportunities. But whatever the “why,” business transformation success today is mostly about the ‘how’ and the ‘when’. Business transformation also requires a strong managerial capability to drive the vision, set the tone, and keep the direction towards objectives and expected outcomes while avoiding pitfalls along the way.
March 2026
CEO Think Tank | The path to the agentic enterprise
- Understanding the real transformational value of agentic AI
- Key transition milestones from experimentation to large-scale deployment
- Looking beyond automation to drive operational excellence, innovation and value creation
- Measuring risks, opportunities and key business foundations before investing in agentic AI
June 2026
CEO Think Tank | The DNA of the new corporate leaders
- Setting the tone and directions: major traits of the new generation of corporate leaders
- Digital fluency: how should CEOs lead in fully tech-driven business world
- Geopolitics, society, regulation, social tensions…: how to survive the pressure and navigate constant change
- Projecting confidence, authority and leadership to bridge 5 generations at work
- Moving up the corporate ladder and making lasting impact: the importance of executive presence
October 2026
CEO Think Tank | Operational resilience without destabilizing: the new CEO balancing act
- Geopolitics, cyber-hacking, supply chain breakdown…: assessing and mitigating new business risks
- How to effectively protect critical processes & infrastructures
- Sole technology reliance: which risks and which resilience measures in a tech-driven world?
- Agility, adaptation, business control…: what does operational resiience really mean today?
- Redefining the new rules of risk mitigation and governance
November 2026
CEO Think Tank | Beyond the Bottom line: the path to value creation
- Balancing short-term returns and long term value creation: aligning the CEO versus Board vision
- Shareholders versus stakeholders interest: rethinking the rules of corporate governance
- New reporting practices to differentiate short and long term performance
- Fast impact with low risks: the real driver of value creation?
- The art of value creation: is it about innovation or operational excellence?
